[Gio01]

Hi everybody

I wanted to ask you a question

When you are better at the level of anxiety and sleep, do you still have that feeling of emptiness, absence and little emotionality?

As if you're not 100% yourself yet?

As if something you had before was missing

Maybe personality or a Greater self-awareness?

I can't even describe it, because even when I'm better I feel equally strange despite being able to respond to people talking to me and I feel almost normal


I need to know if anyone is like me because I'm feeling a lot of anguish about it...

Thanks to those who will answer

 

[Trith]

If I'm very sleep deprived I can have slightly more DR, but other than that I always have mostly the same level of DR, whether I have a lot of anxiety or I perceive little of it does not seem to make a difference in my case.

 

[Gio01]

If I'm very sleep deprived I can have slightly more DR, but other than that I always have mostly the same level of DR, whether I have a lot of anxiety or I perceive little of it does not seem to make a difference in my case.

Yes, me too, if I don't sleep I'm much worse, but even if I rest and I don't have anxiety I feel strange anyway, I don't feel 100%

However, do you also reflect yourself in the symptoms I wrote before? I don't understand if it's just me who has seen all the posts I've read and they reflected very few of me

 

[Trith]

I think I have or have had all of those, but it depends on how we define them. I have emotionality but I don't feel connected to my emotions, it's maybe they are like one dimensional, or not nourishing. Some parts of them are maybe invisible. When I feel better they feel much more spatious.
Not feeling myself, nowadays I don't know, but I certainly have had that. For me the core of DR is not feeling reality is real, and the core of DP is not feeling myself, or loss of familiarity. It's really the basis. I think almost everyone here must feel or have felt that. And feeling strange, definitely when I have DP.

 

[Gio01]

I think I have or have had all of those, but it depends on how we define them. I have emotionality but I don't feel connected to my emotions, it's maybe they are like one dimensional, or not nourishing. Some parts of them are maybe invisible. When I feel better they feel much more spatious.
Not feeling myself, nowadays I don't know, but I certainly have had that. For me the core of DR is not feeling reality is real, and the core of DP is not feeling myself, or loss of familiarity. It's really the basis. I think almost everyone here must feel or have felt that. And feeling strange, definitely when I have DP.

Do you feel absent when people talk to you? Or while you do things like a shower or any activity?

For example, you are aware of what you do but it is as if your head is not present at all

 

[Trith]

Do you feel absent when people talk to you? Or while you do things like a shower or any activity?

For example, you are aware of what you do but it is as if your head is not present at all

I'm not sure what you mean by "absent", but if you mean I am not really present to what I am doing, yes. Like I am not fully there when someone talks to me, I listen to them, but it's like many parts of my brain that should be activated when socializing, for example, are turned off or directed to other tasks. A bit like in the Simpsons, when someone talks to Homer and he pretends to listen but you see that he is just thinking about donuts, or he has a monkey with cymbals turning around in his head. So it's like I am partially like that all the time in a sense. Even if I am not really being distracted by something else, it's like my mind cannot be fully on the tasks I am doing, I'm just focusing with half a brain. Is this what you mean?

 

[Gio01]

I'm not sure what you mean by "absent", but if you mean I am not really present to what I am doing, yes. Like I am not fully there when someone talks to me, I listen to them, but it's like many parts of my brain that should be activated when socializing, for example, are turned off or directed to other tasks. A bit like in the Simpsons, when someone talks to Homer and he pretends to listen but you see that he is just thinking about donuts, or he has a monkey with cymbals turning around in his head. So it's like I am partially like that all the time in a sense. Even if I am not really being distracted by something else, it's like my mind cannot be fully on the tasks I am doing, I'm just focusing with half a brain. Is this what you mean?
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Exactly what I mean, even when you walk out that you feel lost even if you know where you're going, or just like when someone talks to you and you can't hear the speeches even if you don't think about anything else

 

[Nancyl]

Terrific answer - nailed it